Seven-Year-Old Audri’s Rube Goldberg Machine
Seven?! So amazing on so many levels. [via G4 via @gerg]
mechanics
Incredible Wine Uncorking Contraption
This incredible wine uncorking contraption was created by mechanical sculptor Rob Higgs. Inspired by Heath Robinson’s mechanical drawings, Higgs constructed The Corkscrew partly out of found parts. Other components he based on existing parts which he modified and recast in bronze.
How-To: Rotary Bench Cams
Clever, simple idea for a workholder that grabs automatically when you push a board into it, and releases automatically when you pull it out. From medicinal chemist and woodworker Brian Grella. From where I sit, it looks like you might only need to make one of these rotating cams, and the other side of the clamp could be a fixed, flat fence.
Flapping Wing Rings
Much as I admire Dukno Yoon’s evident skills as a jeweler and metalsmith, I have to say his aeronautical engineering needs a bit of brushing up. There’s just no way he’s ever going to get off the ground in that thing.
Machine Art: Viking Longship
The nameplate in the video attributes Steampunk Voyager to Forrest Burnett, who otherwise seems to be a bit of a ghost, online. I’m not even sure this video was posted under his YouTube account, since there is different user forrestburnett with a channel that seems to be documenting original kinetic sculptures.
Beautifully Overengineered Toy Car
From Dutch designer Wouter Scheublin, who made a big splash in 2010 with his Walking Table. This pull-back-to-wind Toy Car, machined in stainless steel and bronze, with matching walnut box, was produced in a limited edition of twenty, and is still available in laser-sintered nylon, though it isn’t cheap. [Thanks, Billy Baque!] More:Seriously Overengineered MousetrapVery, […]
Balloon Gripper with Positive Pressure Mode Can “Shoot” as Well as Grab
Last March, roboticist Eric Brown and co-workers at the University of Chicago made headlines with their new, unconventional robot gripper design: a balloon filled with coffee grounds or other grainy material and fitted with a vacuum line. At atmospheric pressure, the balloon is squishy and can be “mushed” around an object—even traditionally hard-to-grip stuff like […]
